I've seen both spellings, but which is correct, accoustic or acoustic?
acoustic. Not an expert or anything, but I fail to see why there should be two cc's.
Acoustic. Double 'c' is for words like "accelerate" when you're saying "AC" and "celerate" hence using the sound twice (well two different sounds coming from the same letter) When you say it out loud, you can clearly hear that "acoustic" only needs one letter
Both are correct but acoustic is more often used than accoustic.
There's only one correct way to spell 'acoustic'. Like that. Single 'c'.
However, while not wishing to be a smartass, I must add that Davorunner is incorrect in asserting that double 'c' is (always) for words where one is the hard 'c', and the other, the soft 'c'. Like 'accelerate'.
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If you are referring to music instruments that produces sound without the use of electricity or electronics, then the correct spelling is "acoustic".
The right spelling would be acoustic as provided in various dictionaries.
well the dictionary should have solved this question but since it's asked.....i guess it should be AC
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